Here’s the second part of Bill’s post about his recent trips to Great Falls National Park.

As the morning fog burned off, I was able to photograph the falls at Great Falls with some of the remaining mist. Here’s another view of the Falls in the mist.

(c) 2008 William Lawrence

As I was pakcing up, the kayakers came out, so I got a couple of shots of the lunatics, ahem, I mean highly experience kayakers, going over the large set of falls near the Virginia side of the river. Some of the kayakers climbed up the rocks with their kayaks for at least a second run over the falls.

(c) 2008 William Lawrence

(c) 2008 William Lawrence

I only had my 28-135 zoom with me for the DSLR, so I don’t have any close-up photos of the kayakers. I like these photos as they show the rouch waters they were navigating.

And one final photo for the day – as I was walking out of the park – I saw person using what looked like a surfboard designed for river use. The person was standing on the board, paddling with the long paddle.

(c) 2008 William Lawrence

So my lessons for the weekend were:

1. Keep going back to places you like to photograph – you might just find something new.
2. Just because the weather doesn’t cooperate doesn’t mean you can’t take interesting photographs.
3. A little fog is a great way of adding to the sense of perspective in your photos, as distant things rapidly fade in the mist.
4. Photographing thick fog is a great way to find that your DSLR sensor is desperately in need of cleaning.
5. I’m never, ever, ever, going over Great Falls in a kayak (although I’ll admit I kind of knew this before this trip – not I’m really sure!)